S.K. Suresh Kumar, secretary, the Calicut Diabetes Forum says that a patient with diabetes may get immediate complications from the hypoglycemia. The result will be fatal for a patient with heart disease and diabetes.

If the blood glucose levels dip to a very low levels, then there was a possibility of cardiac arrhythmia where the heartbeat can be more than 100 beats per minute or less than 60 beats per minute. So a patient with diabetes should not try to achieve an ideal HbA1c level of 7 (3-month average value).

A study at the Lund University, Sweden shows type 2 diabetes (T2D) will be inherited more from the mother.

The risk genes of diabetes are THADA and KCNQ1. They play a dominant role if they were inherited from the mother. Whereas there will be no effect if they were inherited from the father. The risk of diabetes from the heredity will be greater if the mother has type 2 diabetes.

Medtronic and Qualcomm Life are working together to develop the continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for the patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Currently, Medtronic is making CGMs for the patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Medtronic has a 50 percent of the market share. Laura Stoltenberg, vice president of the Non-Intensive Diabetes Therapies at the Medtronic says they are developing an affordable and innovative continuous glucose monitor (CGMs).

Our body takes time to adjust when we switch to a low sugar diet. Nearly 50 percent of the heart patients and 66 percent of the kidney failure patients were diagnosed with diabetes. The bulk of our sugar intake comes from the processed foods.

In general, the added sugar intake should not exceed more than 40 to 55 grams per day.

The Effects of Diabetes on Tuberculosis Severity (EDOTS) study on about 209 patients with diabetes and pulmonary tuberculosis. Vijay Viswanathan, head, M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, Chennai, India says that 32.7 percent of the patients are newly diagnosed patients of diabetes and tuberculosis (TB).

This study suggests that becoming sick with TB can push the patients of pre-diabetes into the diabetes range of high blood sugar (glucose) levels.

A study led by Cuilin Zhang at the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland, has analyzed records of 15,632 pregnant women between 1991 and 2001. They have no history of gestational diabetes or chronic disease before the pregnancy.

Women were asked to report the consumption of the potatoes in the year prior to the pregnancy. The study has found that a high consumption of potatoes was associated with gestational diabetes.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company. The company is conducting an advanced trial on the Semaglutide pill (glucagon-like peptide 1. GLP-1) which can help the body in making insulin. It provides superior glycemic control and can lower the body weight and blood sugar (glucose) levels.

The drug is once a week and it can lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases, which is often at a higher risk in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

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